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Welcome to Kicking the Seat!

Ian Simmons launched Kicking the Seat in 2009, one week after seeing Nora Ephron’s Julie & Julia. His wife proposed blogging as a healthier outlet for his anger than red-faced, twenty-minute tirades (Ian is no longer allowed to drive home from the movies).

The Kicking the Seat Podcast followed three years later and, despite its “undiscovered gem” status, Ian thoroughly enjoys hosting film critic discussions, creating themed shows, and interviewing such luminaries as Gaspar NoéRachel BrosnahanAmy Seimetz, and Richard Dreyfuss.

Ian is a member of the Chicago Film Critics Association. He also has a family, a day job, and conflicted feelings about referring to himself in the third person.

Ep941: Accademia Giallo: THE STRANGE COLOR OF YOUR BODY'S TEARS (2013)

Ep941: Accademia Giallo: THE STRANGE COLOR OF YOUR BODY'S TEARS (2013)

What's this?! Accademia Giallo is covering a movie from this century?

Yes, this month your professors of the perverse examine 2013's The Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears! In Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani's thriller, a man returns home from a business trip to discover his wife missing. Delving deeper and deeper into a surreal kaleidoscope of half-baked leads, seduction, deceit, and murder, he grows to suspect that someone in the building knows something!

Is this November offering a reason to give thanks...or a turkey surprise? Watch and learn!

Plus: AC gives a post mortem on Scare-a-Thon 2023!

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Show Links

  • Watch the The Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears trailer.

  • As an added treat, check out the return of Baron Martino, discussing The Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears!

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  • And catch up with classic episodes of his Saturday Night Movie Sleepovers podcast!

  • Continue your education with our "Accademia Giallo" Playlist!

Ep942: THE MARVELS (2023) - Round Table Review

Ep942: THE MARVELS (2023) - Round Table Review

Ep940: Late Screening: KILL BILL VOLUME 1 (2003)

Ep940: Late Screening: KILL BILL VOLUME 1 (2003)